Charlie Hunnam has expressed his desire to redo 2017’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. The movie received a lukewarm critical response at best upon its release, stopping what Hunnam hoped would become a franchise-starter revolving around Arthurian legend. For him, though, the missed opportunity can be attributed to one thing: miscasting.
"I’d like to go back to King Arthur because there’s a lot of things went wrong during that and a lot of things that were out of our control," Hunnam said on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy. "I just don’t think we ended up matching the aspiration — we just didn’t quite make the movie we wanted. The idea was that if it was a success, we would’ve made several of those films, and I’m really captivated by the Arthurian legends and I just feel like we really missed an opportunity to tell a long-form story."
Hunnam deftly avoided naming the actor or role he feels wasn't a good fit but noted "There was a piece of miscasting that ended up crippling the central story line. It’s actually not in the film anymore."
Hunnam's next project is The Gentlemen. Directed by Guy Ritchie, the film stars Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong, Eddie Marsan, Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant. It arrives in theaters Jan. 24.
(via EW)